The man accused of raping a 19-year-old woman at knifepoint on a Penn State golf course more than two decades ago has been sentenced to years in prison for a similar attack in Michigan.
Kurt A. Rillema, 52, was sentenced on Wednesday in Oakland County Circuit Court to 10 to 15 years in prison for third- and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in the 1999 assault of a woman at a Michigan golf course, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said in a news release. He pleaded no contest to the charges in December when first- and second-degree charges were dropped as part of the plea.
“Rillema will serve serious prison time for his crime,” McDonald said, noting that prosecutors agreed to the plea after consulting with the victim. “I know reliving this trauma after so many years wasn’t easy for the victim. Her strength sustained this case, and I applaud the relentless work by law enforcement that allowed us to deliver a just ending for her.”…